Academy Award For Best Actress

The youngest ever nominee is Keisha Castle-Hughes , who was 13 when nominated for her role in '' Whale Rider '' in 2003. The oldest nominee and winner is Jessica Tandy , who was 80 years old when she won for '' Driving Miss Daisy '' in 1989. The youngest ever winner is Marlee Matlin , who was 21 when she won for her role in '' Children Of A Lesser God ''.

Katharine Hepburn , with four wins, has more Best Actress Awards than any other actress. Eleven women have won two Best Actress Awards; in chronological order, they are Luise Rainer , Bette Davis , Ingrid Bergman , Vivien Leigh , Olivia De Havilland , Elizabeth Taylor , Glenda Jackson , Jane Fonda , Sally Field , Jodie Foster ,and Hilary Swank .

1920S

1928 Janet Gaynor - '' Seventh Heaven '', '' Street Angel '' and '' Sunrise ''

--- Louise Dresser - '' A Ship Comes In ''

--- Gloria Swanson - '' Sadie Thompson ''

1929 Mary Pickford - '' Coquette ''

--- Ruth Chatterton - '' Madame X ''

--- Betty Compson - '' The Barker ''

--- Jeanne Eagels - '' The Letter ''

--- Corinne Griffith - '' The Divine Lady ''

--- Bessie Love - '' The Broadway Melody ''

1930S

1930 Norma Shearer - '' The Divorcee ''

--- Nancy Carroll - '' The Devil's Holiday ''

--- Ruth Chatterton - '' Sarah And Son ''

--- Greta Garbo - '' Anna Christie '' and '' Romance ''

--- Norma Shearer - '' Their Own Desire ''

--- Gloria Swanson - '' The Trespasser ''

1931 Marie Dressler - '' Min And Bill ''

--- Marlene Dietrich - '' Morocco ''

--- Irene Dunne - '' Cimarron ''

--- Ann Harding - '' Holiday ''

--- Norma Shearer - '' A Free Soul ''

1932 Helen Hayes - '' The Sin Of Madelon Claudet ''

--- Marie Dressler - '' Emma ''

--- Lynn Fontanne - '' The Guardsman ''

1933 Katharine Hepburn - '' Morning Glory ''

--- May Robson - '' Lady For A Day ''

--- Diana Wynyard - '' Cavalcade ''

1934 Claudette Colbert - '' It Happened One Night ''

--- Grace Moore - '' One Night Of Love ''

--- Norma Shearer - '' The Barretts Of Wimpole Street ''

1935 Bette Davis - '' Dangerous ''

--- Elisabeth Bergner - '' Escape Me Never ''

--- Claudette Colbert - '' Private Worlds ''

--- Katharine Hepburn - '' Alice Adams ''

--- Miriam Hopkins - '' Becky Sharp ''

--- Merle Oberon - '' The Dark Angel ''

1936 Luise Rainer - '' The Great Ziegfeld ''

--- Irene Dunne - '' Theodora Goes Wild ''

--- Gladys George - '' Valiant Is The Word For Carrie ''

--- Carole Lombard - '' My Man Godfrey ''

--- Norma Shearer - '' Romeo And Juliet ''

1937 Luise Rainer - '' The Good Earth ''

--- Irene Dunne - '' The Awful Truth ''

--- Greta Garbo - '' Camille ''

--- Janet Gaynor - '' A Star Is Born ''

--- Barbara Stanwyck - '' Stella Dallas ''

1938 Bette Davis - '' Jezebel ''

--- Fay Bainter - '' White Banners ''

--- Wendy Hiller - '' Pygmalion ''

--- Norma Shearer - '' Marie Antoinette ''

--- Margaret Sullavan - '' Three Comrades ''

1939 Vivien Leigh - '' Gone With The Wind ''

--- Bette Davis - '' Dark Victory ''

--- Irene Dunne - '' Love Affair ''

--- Greta Garbo - '' Ninotchka ''

--- Greer Garson - '' Goodbye, Mr. Chips ''

1940S

1940 Ginger Rogers - '' Kitty Foyle ''

--- Bette Davis - '' The Letter ''

--- Joan Fontaine - '' Rebecca ''

--- Katharine Hepburn - '' The Philadelphia Story ''

--- Martha Scott - '' Our Town ''

1941 Joan Fontaine - '' Suspicion ''

--- Bette Davis - '' The Little Foxes ''

--- Olivia De Havilland - '' Hold Back The Dawn ''

--- Greer Garson - '' Blossoms In The Dust ''

--- Barbara Stanwyck - '' Ball Of Fire ''

1942 Greer Garson - '' Mrs. Miniver ''

--- Bette Davis - '' Now, Voyager ''

--- Katharine Hepburn - '' Woman Of The Year ''

--- Rosalind Russell - '' My Sister Eileen ''

--- Teresa Wright - '' The Pride Of The Yankees ''

1943 Jennifer Jones - '' The Song Of Bernadette ''

--- Jean Arthur - '' The More The Merrier ''

--- Ingrid Bergman - '' For Whom The Bell Tolls ''

--- Joan Fontaine - '' The Constant Nymph ''

--- Greer Garson - '' Madame Curie ''

1944 Ingrid Bergman - '' Gaslight ''

--- Claudette Colbert - '' Since You Went Away ''

--- Bette Davis - '' Mr. Skeffington ''

--- Greer Garson - '' Mrs. Parkington ''

--- Barbara Stanwyck - '' Double Indemnity ''

1945 Joan Crawford '' Mildred Pierce ''

--- Ingrid Bergman - '' The Bells Of St. Mary's ''

--- Greer Garson - '' The Valley Of Decision ''

--- Jennifer Jones - '' Love Letters ''

--- Gene Tierney - '' Leave Her To Heaven ''

1946 Olivia De Havilland - '' To Each His Own ''

--- Celia Johnson - '' Brief Encounter ''

--- Jennifer Jones - '' Duel In The Sun ''

--- Rosalind Russell - '' Sister Kenny ''

--- Jane Wyman - '' The Yearling ''

1947 Loretta Young - '' The Farmer's Daughter ''

--- Joan Crawford - '' Possessed ''

--- Susan Hayward - '' Smash-Up, The Story Of A Woman ''

--- Dorothy McGuire - '' Gentleman's Agreement ''

--- Rosalind Russell - '' Mourning Becomes Electra ''

1948 Jane Wyman - '' Johnny Belinda ''

--- Ingrid Bergman - '' Joan Of Arc ''

--- Olivia De Havilland - '' The Snake Pit ''

--- Irene Dunne - '' I Remember Mama ''

--- Barbara Stanwyck - '' Sorry, Wrong Number ''

1949 Olivia De Havilland - '' The Heiress ''

--- Jeanne Crain - '' Pinky ''

--- Susan Hayward - '' My Foolish Heart ''

--- Deborah Kerr - '' Edward, My Son ''

--- Loretta Young - '' Come To The Stable ''

1950S

1950 Judy Holliday - '' Born Yesterday ''

--- Anne Baxter - '' All About Eve ''

--- Bette Davis - '' All About Eve ''

--- Eleanor Parker - '' Caged ''

--- Gloria Swanson - '' Sunset Boulevard ''

1951 Vivien Leigh - '' A Streetcar Named Desire ''

--- Katharine Hepburn - '' The African Queen ''

--- Eleanor Parker - '' Detective Story ''

--- Shelley Winters - '' A Place In The Sun ''

--- Jane Wyman - '' The Blue Veil ''

1952 Shirley Booth - '' Come Back, Little Sheba ''

--- Joan Crawford - '' Sudden Fear ''

--- Bette Davis - '' The Star ''

--- Julie Harris - '' The Member Of The Wedding ''

--- Susan Hayward - '' With A Song In My Heart ''

1953 Audrey Hepburn - '' Roman Holiday ''

--- Leslie Caron - '' Lili ''

--- Ava Gardner - '' Mogambo ''

--- Deborah Kerr - '' From Here To Eternity ''

--- Maggie McNamara - '' The Moon Is Blue ''

1954 Grace Kelly - '' The Country Girl ''

--- Dorothy Dandridge - '' Carmen Jones ''

--- Judy Garland - '' A Star Is Born ''

--- Audrey Hepburn - '' Sabrina ''

--- Jane Wyman - '' Magnificent Obsession ''

1955 Anna Magnani - '' The Rose Tattoo ''

--- Susan Hayward - '' I'll Cry Tomorrow ''

--- Katharine Hepburn - '' Summertime ''

--- Jennifer Jones - '' Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing ''

--- Eleanor Parker - '' Interrupted Melody ''

1956 Ingrid Bergman - '' Anastasia ''

--- Carroll Baker - '' Baby Doll ''

--- Katharine Hepburn - '' The Rainmaker ''

--- Nancy Kelly - '' The Bad Seed ''

--- Deborah Kerr - '' The King And I ''

1957 Joanne Woodward - '' The Three Faces Of Eve ''

--- Deborah Kerr - '' Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison ''

--- Anna Magnani - '' Wild Is The Wind ''

--- Elizabeth Taylor - '' Raintree County ''

--- Lana Turner - '' Peyton Place ''

1958 Susan Hayward - '' I Want To Live! ''

--- Deborah Kerr - '' Separate Tables ''

--- Shirley MacLaine - '' Some Came Running ''

--- Rosalind Russell - '' Auntie Mame ''

--- Elizabeth Taylor - '' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof ''

1959 Simone Signoret - '' Room At The Top ''

--- Doris Day - '' Pillow Talk ''

--- Audrey Hepburn - '' The Nun's Story ''

--- Katharine Hepburn - '' Suddenly, Last Summer ''

--- Elizabeth Taylor - '' Suddenly, Last Summer ''

1960S

1960 Elizabeth Taylor - '' Butterfield 8 ''

--- Greer Garson - '' Sunrise At Campobello ''

--- Deborah Kerr - '' The Sundowners ''

--- Shirley MacLaine - '' The Apartment ''

--- Melina Mercouri - '' Never On Sunday ''

1961 Sophia Loren - '' Two Women ''

--- Audrey Hepburn - '' Breakfast At Tiffany's ''

--- Piper Laurie - '' The Hustler ''

--- Geraldine Page - '' Summer And Smoke ''

--- Natalie Wood - '' Splendor In The Grass ''

1962 Anne Bancroft - '' The Miracle Worker ''

--- Bette Davis - '' What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? ''

--- Katharine Hepburn - '' Long Day's Journey Into Night ''

--- Geraldine Page - '' Sweet Bird Of Youth ''

--- Lee Remick - '' Days Of Wine And Roses ''

1963 Patricia Neal - '' Hud ''

--- Leslie Caron - '' The L-Shaped Room ''

--- Shirley MacLaine - '' Irma La Douce ''

--- Rachel Roberts - '' This Sporting Life ''

--- Natalie Wood - '' Love With The Proper Stranger ''

1964 Julie Andrews - '' Mary Poppins ''

--- Anne Bancroft - '' The Pumpkin Eater ''

--- Sophia Loren - '' Marriage Italian Style ''

--- Debbie Reynolds - '' The Unsinkable Molly Brown ''

--- Kim Stanley - '' Seance On A Wet Afternoon ''

1965 Julie Christie - '' Darling ''

--- Julie Andrews - '' The Sound Of Music ''

--- Samantha Eggar - '' The Collector ''

--- Elizabeth Hartman - '' A Patch Of Blue ''

--- Simone Signoret - '' Ship Of Fools ''

1966 Dame Elizabeth Taylor - '' Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? ''

--- Anouk Aimée - '' A Man And A Woman ''

--- Ida Kaminska - '' The Shop On Main Street ''

--- Lynn Redgrave - '' Georgy Girl ''

--- Vanessa Redgrave - '' Morgan! ''

1967 Katharine Hepburn - '' Guess Who's Coming To Dinner ''

--- Anne Bancroft - '' The Graduate ''

--- Faye Dunaway - '' Bonnie And Clyde ''

--- Edith Evans - '' The Whisperers ''

--- Audrey Hepburn - '' Wait Until Dark ''

1968 Katharine Hepburn - '' The Lion In Winter '' and Barbra Streisand - '' Funny Girl ''

--- Patricia Neal - '' The Subject Was Roses ''

--- Vanessa Redgrave - '' Isadora ''

--- Joanne Woodward - '' Rachel, Rachel ''

1969 Dame Maggie Smith - '' The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie ''

--- Geneviève Bujold - '' Anne Of The Thousand Days ''

--- Jane Fonda - '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ''

--- Liza Minnelli - '' The Sterile Cuckoo ''

--- Jean Simmons - '' The Happy Ending ''

1970S

1970 Glenda Jackson - '' Women In Love ''

--- Jane Alexander - '' The Great White Hope ''

--- Ali MacGraw - '' Love Story ''

--- Sarah Miles - '' Ryan's Daughter ''

--- Carrie Snodgress - '' Diary Of A Mad Housewife ''

1971 Jane Fonda - '' Klute ''

--- Julie Christie - '' McCabe & Mrs. Miller ''

--- Glenda Jackson - '' Sunday Bloody Sunday ''

--- Vanessa Redgrave - '' Mary, Queen Of Scots ''

--- Janet Suzman - '' Nicholas And Alexandra ''

1972 Liza Minnelli - '' Cabaret ''

--- Diana Ross - '' Lady Sings The Blues ''

--- Maggie Smith - '' Travels With My Aunt ''

--- Cicely Tyson - '' Sounder ''

--- Liv Ullmann - '' The Emigrants ''

1973 Glenda Jackson - '' A Touch Of Class ''

--- Ellen Burstyn - '' The Exorcist ''

--- Marsha Mason - '' Cinderella Liberty ''

--- Barbra Streisand - '' The Way We Were ''

--- Joanne Woodward - '' Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams ''

1974 Ellen Burstyn - '' Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ''

--- Diahann Carroll - '' Claudine ''

--- Faye Dunaway - '' Chinatown ''

--- Valerie Perrine - '' Lenny ''

--- Gena Rowlands - '' A Woman Under The Influence ''

1975 Louise Fletcher - '' One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest ''

--- Ann-Margret - '' Tommy ''

--- Isabelle Adjani - '' The Story Of Adele H. ''

--- Glenda Jackson - '' Hedda ''

--- Carol Kane - '' Hester Street ''

1976 Faye Dunaway - '' Network ''

--- Marie-Christine Barrault - '' Cousin, Cousine ''

--- Talia Shire - '' Rocky ''

--- Sissy Spacek - '' Carrie ''

--- Liv Ullmann - '' Face To Face ''

1977 Diane Keaton - '' Annie Hall ''

--- Anne Bancroft - '' The Turning Point ''

--- Jane Fonda - '' Julia ''

--- Shirley MacLaine - '' The Turning Point ''

--- Marsha Mason - '' The Goodbye Girl ''

1978 Jane Fonda - '' Coming Home ''

--- Ingrid Bergman - '' Autumn Sonata ''

--- Ellen Burstyn - '' Same Time, Next Year ''

--- Jill Clayburgh - '' An Unmarried Woman ''

--- Geraldine Page - '' Interiors ''

1979 Sally Field - '' Norma Rae ''

--- Jill Clayburgh - '' Starting Over ''

--- Jane Fonda - '' The China Syndrome ''

--- Marsha Mason - '' Chapter Two ''

--- Bette Midler - '' The Rose ''

1980S

1980 Sissy Spacek - '' Coal Miner's Daughter ''

--- Ellen Burstyn - '' Resurrection ''

--- Goldie Hawn - '' Private Benjamin ''

--- Mary Tyler Moore - '' Ordinary People ''

--- Gena Rowlands - '' Gloria ''

1981 Katharine Hepburn - '' On Golden Pond ''

--- Diane Keaton - '' Reds ''

--- Marsha Mason - '' Only When I Laugh ''

--- Susan Sarandon - '' Atlantic City ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' The French Lieutenant's Woman ''

1982 Meryl Streep - '' Sophie's Choice ''

--- Julie Andrews - '' Victor/Victoria ''

--- Jessica Lange - '' Frances ''

--- Sissy Spacek - '' Missing ''

--- Debra Winger - '' An Officer And A Gentleman ''

1983 Shirley MacLaine - '' Terms Of Endearment ''

--- Jane Alexander - '' Testament ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' Silkwood ''

--- Julie Walters - '' Educating Rita ''

--- Debra Winger - '' Terms Of Endearment ''

1984 Sally Field - '' Places In The Heart ''

--- Judy Davis - '' A Passage To India ''

--- Jessica Lange - '' Country ''

--- Vanessa Redgrave - '' The Bostonians ''

--- Sissy Spacek - '' The River ''

1985 Geraldine Page - '' The Trip To Bountiful ''

--- Anne Bancroft - '' Agnes Of God ''

--- Whoopi Goldberg - '' The Color Purple ''

--- Jessica Lange - '' Sweet Dreams ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' Out Of Africa ''

1986 Marlee Matlin - '' Children Of A Lesser God ''

--- Jane Fonda - '' The Morning After ''

--- Sissy Spacek - '' Crimes Of The Heart ''

--- Kathleen Turner - '' Peggy Sue Got Married ''

--- Sigourney Weaver - '' Aliens ''

1987 Cher - '' Moonstruck ''

--- Glenn Close - '' Fatal Attraction ''

--- Holly Hunter - '' Broadcast News ''

--- Sally Kirkland - '' Anna ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' Ironweed ''

1988 Jodie Foster - '' The Accused ''

--- Glenn Close - '' Dangerous Liaisons ''

--- Melanie Griffith - '' Working Girl ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' A Cry In The Dark ''

--- Sigourney Weaver - '' Gorillas In The Mist ''

1989 Jessica Tandy - '' Driving Miss Daisy ''

--- Isabelle Adjani - '' Camille Claudel ''

--- Pauline Collins - '' Shirley Valentine ''

--- Jessica Lange - '' Music Box ''

--- Michelle Pfeiffer - '' The Fabulous Baker Boys ''

1990S

1990 Kathy Bates - '' Misery ''

--- Anjelica Huston - '' The Grifters ''

--- Julia Roberts - '' Pretty Woman ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' Postcards From The Edge ''

--- Joanne Woodward - '' Mr. And Mrs. Bridge ''

1991 Jodie Foster - '' The Silence Of The Lambs ''

--- Geena Davis - '' Thelma And Louise ''

--- Laura Dern - '' Rambling Rose ''

--- Bette Midler - '' For The Boys ''

--- Susan Sarandon - '' Thelma And Louise ''

1992 Emma Thompson - '' Howards End ''

--- Catherine Deneuve - '' Indochine ''

--- Mary McDonnell - '' Passion Fish ''

--- Michelle Pfeiffer - '' Love Field ''

--- Susan Sarandon - '' Lorenzo's Oil ''

1993 Holly Hunter - '' The Piano ''

--- Angela Bassett - '' What's Love Got To Do With It? ''

--- Stockard Channing - '' Six Degrees Of Separation ''

--- Emma Thompson - '' The Remains Of The Day ''

--- Debra Winger - '' Shadowlands ''

1994 Jessica Lange - '' Blue Sky ''

--- Jodie Foster - '' Nell ''

--- Miranda Richardson - '' Tom & Viv ''

--- Winona Ryder - '' Little Women ''

--- Susan Sarandon - '' The Client ''

1995 Susan Sarandon - '' Dead Man Walking ''

--- Elisabeth Shue - '' Leaving Las Vegas ''

--- Sharon Stone - '' Casino ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' The Bridges Of Madison County ''

--- Emma Thompson - '' Sense And Sensibility ''

1996 Frances McDormand - '' Fargo ''

--- Brenda Blethyn - '' Secrets & Lies ''

--- Diane Keaton - '' Marvin's Room ''

--- Kristin Scott Thomas - '' The English Patient ''

--- Emily Watson - '' Breaking The Waves ''

1997 Helen Hunt - '' As Good As It Gets ''

--- Helena Bonham Carter - '' The Wings Of The Dove ''

--- Julie Christie - '' Afterglow ''

--- Judi Dench - '' Mrs. Brown ''

--- Kate Winslet - '' Titanic ''

1998 Gwyneth Paltrow - '' Shakespeare In Love ''

--- Cate Blanchett - '' Elizabeth ''

--- Fernanda Montenegro - '' Central Do Brasil ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' One True Thing ''

--- Emily Watson - '' Hilary And Jackie ''

1999 Hilary Swank - '' Boys Don't Cry ''

--- Annette Bening - '' American Beauty ''

--- Janet McTeer - '' Tumbleweeds ''

--- Julianne Moore - '' The End Of The Affair ''

--- Meryl Streep - '' Music Of The Heart ''

2000S

2000 Julia Roberts - '' Erin Brockovich ''

--- Joan Allen - '' The Contender ''

--- Juliette Binoche - '' Chocolat ''

--- Ellen Burstyn - '' Requiem For A Dream ''

--- Laura Linney - '' You Can Count On Me ''

2001 Halle Berry - '' Monster's Ball ''

--- Judi Dench - '' Iris ''

--- Nicole Kidman - '' Moulin Rouge! ''

--- Sissy Spacek - '' In The Bedroom ''

--- Renée Zellweger - '' Bridget Jones's Diary ''

2002 Nicole Kidman - '' The Hours ''

--- Salma Hayek - '' Frida ''

--- Diane Lane - '' Unfaithful ''

--- Julianne Moore - '' Far From Heaven ''

--- Renée Zellweger - '' Chicago ''

2003 Charlize Theron - '' Monster ''

--- Keisha Castle-Hughes - '' Whale Rider ''

--- Diane Keaton - '' Something's Gotta Give ''

--- Samantha Morton - '' In America ''

--- Naomi Watts - '' 21 Grams ''

2004 Hilary Swank - '' Million Dollar Baby ''

--- Annette Bening - '' Being Julia ''

--- Catalina Sandino Moreno - '' Maria Full Of Grace ''

--- Imelda Staunton - '' Vera Drake ''

--- Kate Winslet - '' Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ''

2005 Reese Witherspoon - '' Walk The Line ''

--- Judi Dench - '' Mrs. Henderson Presents ''

--- Felicity Huffman - '' Transamerica ''

--- Charlize Theron - '' North Country ''

--- Keira Knightley - '' Pride And Prejudice ''

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